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Neuronal Computation Underlying Inferential Reasoning in Humans and Mice
In humans and mice, the hippocampus supports inferential reasoning by computing a
prospective code to predict upcoming events, before extracting logical links between
discrete events during rest to form a mnemonic short cut for inferred...
Similarities and differences in spatial and non-spatial cognitive maps
Author summary There is a resurgence of interest in “cognitive maps’’ based on recent evidence that the hippocampal-entorhinal system encodes both spatial and non-spatial relational information, with far-reaching implications for human behavior. Yet...
Multiple associative structures created by reinforcement and incidental statistical learning mechanisms
Associative learning occurs through reinforcement mechanisms as well as incidentally through experience of statistical relationships. Here, the authors report that these two learning processes are associated with specialized anatomical regions that...
Behavior-dependent directional tuning in the human visual-navigation network
The brain derives cognitive maps from sensory experience to guide memory formation and behavior. Despite extensive efforts, it still remains unclear how the underlying population activity relates to active behavior and memory performance. Here, we...
How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation - Alexey Guzey
Summary: academia has a lot of problems and it could work much better. However, these problems are not as catastrophic as an outside perspective would suggest. My (contrarian, I guess) intuition is that scientific progress in biology is not slowing...
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Mona Garvert
The grid cell meeting is starting in a few hours and we will be sharing most of the event with the whole wide world! Link to the livestream on our website from 9am BST: cognitive-map.com #gridmeeting18
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Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit
<p>Cells in the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit, which fire in response to navigational variables such as location or speed, are shown also to encode continuous, task-relevant but non-spatial variables such as sound frequency.</p>
Mona Garvert
@Dick_retired @FMRIB Hi Dick, there is more and more evidence now that the entorhinal cortex encodes relational knowledge across many cognitive domains beyond space (see e.g. nature.com/articles/natur… or science.sciencemag.org/content/352/62…)...
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Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code
Grid cells are thought to provide the neuronal code that underlies spatial knowledge in the brain. Grid cells have mostly been studied in the context of path integration. However, recent theoretical studies have suggested that they may have a...
Mona Garvert
@Dick_retired @FMRIB Hi Dick, there is more and more evidence now that the entorhinal cortex encodes relational knowledge across many cognitive domains beyond space (see e.g. nature.com/articles/natur… or science.sciencemag.org/content/352/62…)...
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More opportunities for female scientists
With the help of a new initiative, the so-called Lise Meitner excellence programme, the Max Planck Society seeks to attract outstandingly qualified female junior scientists by offering them a long-term perspective.
The hippocampus as a 'predictive map' | DeepMind
In our new paper, in Nature Neuroscience, we apply a neuroscience lens to a longstanding mathematical theory from machine learning to provide new insights into the nature of learning and memory. Specifically, we propose that the area of the brain...